1 v.([333] p.) ; 28 cm

1 portfolio

7 sound tape reels, 6 sound cassettes : 5 in

Interviews with five department directors in the Knight-Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted. Interviewees and titles of interviews, as follows: John M. Peirce. California State Department of Finance, 1953-1958. Also discusses the 1958 gubernatorial campaign. Bert W. Livit. State Finance and Innovations in Government Organization, 1944-1959. Albert B. Tieburg. California State Department of Employment, 1945-1966. Includes discussion of farm placement service and bracero program and minority hiring. John Wedemeyer. California State Department of Social Welfare, 1959-1966. James Lowry. California State Department of Mental Hygiene, 1960s. Includes comments also on mental health program in Reagan administration. With this, 1 portfolio: photocopies of additional documentary material

Reels 1-4, 8-9, 13 are 5 in., reels 5-7, 10-12 are cassettes. Interview notes available for reel 13

Included in: Government history documentation oral history series and Goodwin Knight-Edmond G. Brown, Sr. Era Oral History. Project

Reel 1: John M. Peirce, Aug. 17, 1978. Track 1: 971 ft., track 2: 982 ft. -- Reel 2: Peirce, cont. Track 1: 972 ft., track 2: 345 ft. -- Reel 3: Bert W. Levit, Oct. 26, 1978. Track 1: 971 ft., track 2: 977 ft. -- Reel 4: Levit, cont. Track 1: 408 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 5: Albert B. Tieburg, June 11, 1979. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 496 ft. -- Reel 6: Tieburg, cont. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 496 ft. -- Reel 7: Tieburg, cont. Track 1: 157 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 8: John Wedemeyer, Dec. 15, 1978. Track 1: 970 ft., track 2: 982 ft. -- Reel 9: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 394 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 10: Wedemeyer, Oct. 11, 1979. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: 492 ft. -- Reel 11: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 495 ft. -- Reel 12: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 214 ft., track 2: 497 ft. (track 2 is background interview with Jack Watson, secretary to Senator Albert Rodda, not transcribed) -- Reel 13: James Lowry, Dec. 15, 1978. Track 1: 969 ft., track 2: 767 ft

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library

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